Odds & sods that may or may not be relevant.

Horizon Report website

Social Networking

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World - Kevin Kelly

The machine age is over; the organic age has begun.

• The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.

• Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine.

• We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.

• What humans can’t engineer, evolution can.

Clay Skirky papers.

Educating the Net Generation - Oblinger - also see recommended readings on that page.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World - Kevin Kelly

The Decentered Teacher and the Construction of Social Space in the Virtual Classroom

Social Theory

See definition at wikipedia - go to bottom of page for:

The argument for the necessity of the term states that economic and technological conditions of our age have given rise to a decentralized, media-dominated society in which ideas are simulacra and only inter-referential representations and copies of each other, with no real original, stable or objective source for communication and meaning.

Emotion and Social Theory : Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir)Rational - see in digital library

Videoconferencing

See these five articles

General Learning

Paavola, S, Lipponen, L. & Hakkarainen – in Educational review – article on levels of learning

Lave, J & Wenger, E: 1991 Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation.